Chang Zuihou

Strict Prison Mansion is the only place where relatives of the emperor or important ministers of the second rank and above can be detained. There are still some criminals who have committed serious crimes and will never be released.

It has been a year since Li Xiao was imprisoned here.

Like other high-ranking sinners when they were first imprisoned, he was not used to the water and eating utensils here, nor was he used to sleeping on the scorchingly hard wooden bed, nor could he bear the moldy smell coming out of the room when it rained. And the humidity, of course, is the solitude that torments the most.

The maidservant who delivers meals to Li Xiao every day is named Xiao Lian, she is still young, only in her teens, she seems to be a child of the guilty official family, so she serves as a servant here.

She still remembers the first time she delivered food to Li Xiao, the other party looked at the cold steamed buns and pickles on the plate, became furious, told her to get out, and then threw the food on the floor.

But now, this Marquis has gotten used to the daily life, and has never lost his temper casually.

He even smiled at himself sometimes, which was really gentle and touching.

"Master Hou, when serving the rice today, I chose two larger steamed buns for you."

Xiao Lian affectionately took out the steamed buns and poured a cup of cold tea for Li Xiao.

Li Xiao put down the volume of poetry in her hand, looked up and smiled at the girl, "Idiot, I can't eat much."

Here, the prisoners only had two steamed buns a day, and at first they couldn’t get enough to eat until midnight, so they were very hungry. Later, they gradually got used to the stomach pain and ate even less.

He was wearing a Gebu green shirt that had been washed a little whitish, and the arrogance of the past could no longer be seen between his eyebrows and eyes.

Sometimes, when Li Xiao looks at the shadow in the bronze mirror, she wonders if it is still herself, or the chic and unrestrained Chang Zuihou.

And when he saw the heavy shackles on his hands and feet again, he felt that it was meaningless for him to pursue all this.

Xiao Lian didn't know why Li Xiao was still in shackles until now. She remembered that the brothers and feet of adults who were also criminals living elsewhere were free, but only this man who seemed so gentle and meek had to be tortured like this , not to mention, he already has a broken leg.

Sometimes she really wanted to stay with him for a while longer, but the supervisor outside the door was always very strict, telling her to come out after delivering the meal, and only go in when she was cleaning up.

Most of the time, Li Xiao stayed alone in this deserted and shabby courtyard. The high walls blocked the outside scenery, leaving only a narrow and vast sky.

Fang Hongfei was rarely interested in coming here today.

Ever since Li Xiao scolded him without hesitation a year ago and wounded him, he has only looked at Li Xiao from a distance outside the door.

He knew Chang Zuihou's temper, how could such a proud person be content with the life of a prisoner like this?

Maybe I have to wear down his spirit before I can have a good talk with him calmly.

The residence he arranged for Li Xiao is actually the best in the strict prison mansion, but the cost of eating and drinking is the same as other prisoners. After all, Chang Zuihou is a sinner, he should suffer and think about it Think why he suffers so much.

When Fang Hongfei saw Li Xiao, he couldn't help being a little excited. He carefully looked at Chang Zuihou, whom he hadn't seen for a year.But the winter was approaching, but the other party was only wearing a thin green shirt that had been washed white.

"This subordinate...has met Lord Hou."

Li Xiao had just finished his last mouthful of steamed buns when he took a sip of cold tea and was a little surprised to see Fang Hongfei appearing in the yard.

"It's you?" Li Xiao put down the cup, and when she moved her hand, there was the sound of a string of shackles hitting.

"Yes, I will come down to see Lord Hou."

Fang Hongfei walked slowly into Li Xiao's room, frowned slightly, he had already arranged the best room here for Li Xiao, why is it still so simple, as soon as he entered the door, he could smell a chill musty.

Back then, the room in Wuzui Mountain Villa was not lit with incense and candles, but was decorated with warmth everywhere.

"Oh... I just finished eating." Li Xiao casually turned her head away, pushed the plate aside, and picked up the poetry anthology she had read before.

"Master Hou... If you think the food here is not good, I can ask someone to make another preparation for you."

When Fang Hongfei saw those steamed bun crumbs and pickles, he suddenly felt heartache. Although he just ordered his servants to serve Li Xiao's food according to the rules, he didn't expect the other party to eat such things.

Li Xiao gave him a strange look, and laughed sarcastically, "No need, I'm a sinner, and it's good to have something to eat, so how dare I ask for more."

As soon as he finished speaking, his lungs hurt, and he couldn't help covering his mouth and coughing.

As the weather got colder, his tortured body began to be unbearable. As autumn came, he coughed up blood a few times.

"Master Hou, are you alright?"

Seeing that he was coughing badly, Fang Hongfei hurriedly asked questions with concern.

Li Xiao waved his hands, took a deep breath, and his lungs convulsed with pain.

"It's fine. I'm fine." He put down the book, stood up while supporting the table, and limped towards the wooden bed.

His script was supposed to be cured, but when he was escorted to Beijing, he was tortured by Commander Xue and Fang Hongfei deliberately refused to treat him, so he finally crippled one of his feet.

"I want to rest for a while, Mr. Fang, if you have nothing to do, can you leave here?"

Li Xiao lay down on the bed, pulled a thin quilt over her body, and issued the eviction order without looking back.

Fang Hongfei stood quietly behind him, his eyes were full of entanglements, his heart began to ache, and the pain became more and more painful, almost making him unable to breathe.

Finally, he knelt down behind Li Xiao.

"I know you hate me, Lord Hou. But Hong Fei has no other choice... After all, you have violated the king's law."

"Ha...why say these self-deceiving words again? You and I know what's going on." Li Xiao was silent for a moment, then turned his back to Fang Hongfei and said, "I'm sorry for you, but you may not be worthy of me. I don't want to See you again, let's go."

Fang Hongfei stood up slowly, his serious face became more gloomy.He stood blankly for a while, then suddenly burst out laughing.

"I know who you want to see. What you want to see is Ye Piao. But you have been imprisoned here for a year, has he ever visited you? With his martial arts, it is just a trivial matter to enter the prison mansion! As long as How could he not know you are here after asking a little bit?! Marquis, how stupid you are! How could you be reluctant to part with such a cruel and ruthless person, but ignore my sincerity for you!"

Some words can only be hidden in the bottom of my heart and cannot be said.

Especially the pain of hurting oneself.

The words Fang Hongfei said had bloody exposed the deepest wound in Li Xiao's heart, and then trampled on it fiercely.

"Shut up... shut up!"

As soon as Li Xiao sat up, Fang Hongfei had already pressed over him. He firmly grasped Li Xiao's locked hands, his eyes lost his sense of proportion.

"Lord Hou!" He shouted angrily, suppressing the struggling Li Xiao, without any hesitation anymore.

He has been waiting for many years, thinking about it for many years, and he doesn't want to wait any longer.

Today, he will always be drunk and see himself clearly.

Although Li Xiao's martial arts were not abolished, his hands and feet could not be fully utilized due to the shackles.

What's more, the confinement in the past year has caused him to be tortured, and his body and mind were damaged. Soon, he was still in a trance, and he was restrained by the strong Fang Hongfei.

"Fang Hongfei! How dare you!"

Li Xiao was horrified to find that his clothes were being torn off by the mad man in front of him, Fang Hongfei had all his vital points pinched, and he couldn't move.

"Master Hou, I dare."

Fang Hongfei grinned, pulled off Li Xiao's obscene pants, and finally stripped him naked.

When Li Xiao's pale and thin body appeared naked in front of Fang Hongfei's eyes, the pleasure he expected was not there.

He saw the fear, anger, and even sadness on Li Xiao's face.

"Master Hou, I know you and Ye Piao have been happy many times, I...I..."

Fang Hongfei couldn't go on talking, he still felt ashamed after all.

Suddenly he made up his mind, separated Li Xiao's legs, and took off his underwear.

Li Xiao stared at her eyes full of anger, and kept cursing, "If you dare to touch me, I will kill you! Fang Hongfei, I will tear you to pieces!"

But at this time, Fang Hongfei turned him over, and then pressed him up again, pushing his own body between Li Xiao's crotch.

He didn't move immediately, but whispered in Li Xiao's ear, "I treat you well, and you don't care, so how can I treat you? Is there anything I can't compare to Ye Piao..."

"You can't compare to anything!"

Li Xiao turned her head and scolded angrily, and suddenly found that the other party's eyes had changed, followed by a burst of tearing pain in her lower body.

Fang Hongfei stretched out his hand to cover Li Xiaochou's eyes that were staring at him, put his arms around his waist, and began to push the clone that had been inserted into the opponent's back acupuncture point fiercely.

After Li Xiao clearly understood that Fang Hongfei would not let her go today, she stopped cursing and just smiled wryly.

He coughed while laughing, struggling to tilt his head, tears falling silently.

Fang Hongfei was so immersed in the thrill of being overwhelmed that he didn't even notice that the palms he was covering Li Xiao's eyes were already wet.

After Fang Hongfei vented his desire, Li Xiao passed out long ago.

"Master Hou..."

Fang Hongfei broke away from Li Xiao's body in panic, only to find that his brows were frowned and he was unconscious, and there seemed to be a black bloodstain on his tightly pursed lips.

He hurriedly gave Li Xiao his true energy, and opened his acupoints, and when he saw the slightest movement from the other party, he quickly covered him with a quilt.

Li Xiao woke up in a daze, recalling what happened just now, couldn't help the blood welling up, opened his mouth and vomited out a mouthful of blood.

He looked tiredly at Fang Hongfei, who was full of nervousness, and a vicious smile slowly formed on the corner of his mouth.

"Are you satisfied? Fang Hongfei... Master Fang! Let's go... Chang Zuihou has nothing left for you to trample on."

After he finished speaking, he was panting and coughing again, and blood continued to overflow from his lips.

"Master Hou, this subordinate...deserves death."

After Fang Hongfei woke up, he regretted endlessly, and seeing Li Xiao so desperate and painful, he had no face to face him again.

He knelt on the bed with his head lowered, tears poured out, and he even spoke with a crying tone.

He asked himself to be firm and strong all his life, but he didn't expect that when he regretted it, he would act in such a hypocritical manner.

"Let's go..."

Li Xiao sighed dumbly, for some reason, the back of Ye Piao, who was last seen that day, appeared in front of her eyes.

The back that passed away silently is doomed to never return.

Now, more than ever, I miss the man who can be honest with me and have a good time with me.

How could he forget those days of drinking and getting drunk together, the nights when he took himself to see the stars, and the extremely tender lingering between the beds?

I just don't know if Ye Piao has long forgotten that he is a traitor who is trying to plot against him.

Li Xiao curled up in pain, his shoulders twitched with laughter, he unscrupulously vomited a lot of blood, then dipped his fingers in the blood from his heart, and slowly wrote the word "Ye Piao" on the light-colored quilt.

On the pier near the river in Luozhen, a group of porters were going to the foreman one by one to get today's commission.

This is the transportation hub connecting the north and the south of Yongzhou Prefecture. The Cangming River runs through it, and there are many ships coming and going to unload goods at the pier every day.

Ye Piao was also standing among this group of porters, but Piao Lingjian was no longer on his waist.

Two years ago, when he came here, there was not much money left on his body.

He rented a dilapidated room for [-] Wen, and then came to this wharf looking for opportunities to earn money.

At first, when the foreman saw that he had broken his arm, he refused to assign him a job.

But when the foreman saw that he could easily lift twice the weight of others with one arm, he was quite surprised and hired him.

A penny beats a hero.

The life here is very bitter and tiring, it is far easier than wandering around the rivers and lakes and being admired by others.

But Ye Piao chose this place, and stayed there honestly.

In order to hide his identity, he also took off the Piaoling Sword that never left his body, and he has never talked about the world affairs since then.

Even the neighbors around thought that Ye Piao was just a poor man living here.From time to time, he also gave him some meals and drinks.

The porter who was waiting to get the money was bored, so he just chatted.

"I heard that Shamu's gang is fighting us again in Ningxi!"

"It's hard to live in peace for a few years, why are you fighting again? When the time comes, the higher-ups must not come to our place to catch young men."

"Who knows... Didn't His Royal Highness King Ning bring people to the capital of Shamu? How dare they make trouble?!"

Ye Piao stood silently in the crowd, not interested in their conversation.

It's just that when the word Ning Wang appeared, he finally couldn't help but move in his heart.

King Ning, Marquis of Ge Zi, Marquis of Chang Zui, these three titles all belong to Li Xiao.

There has been no news of Li Xiao for more than two years. Ye Piao doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and Fang Hongfei has never contacted him again.

After receiving today's wages, Ye Piao left silently as usual.

He bought a jug of wine and drank it as he walked.

Given the small amount of money given, the wine was naturally not good, as it tasted sour, but he didn't care, and just gulped it down.

When he got back to the door of the house, Ye Piao was a little drunk for some reason. It stands to reason that the wine is so bad, he shouldn't be drunk.

Pushing open the door, the empty old house was lifeless and dull, Ye Piao walked in slightly, closed the door casually, then sat on the bed and bowed his head in silence.

Holding the jug, he raised his head to drink, and the wine flowed out from the corner of his mouth without hesitation.

After taking her last breath, Ye Piao gasped heavily, and suddenly threw the jug hard to the ground.

"Often drunk!"

The image of Li Xiaolinfeng drinking wine with himself appeared in front of his eyes again, vaguely, even the tenderness seemed so real.

Why do I still think of you now?You have already paid back the fifty lashes... You agreed not to owe each other again, nor to see each other again.

Ye Piao smiled bitterly, and fell back on the bed as soon as she leaned over.

He lay on the bed slightly on his side, and soon his back twitched.

The dull room was still dead silent, only occasionally heard Ye Piao's low murmur.

"Chang Zui Hou..."

Sha Mu's violation of the border made the entire court uneasy, and Xiao Ling, as the lord of a country, was even more worried.

He has just been born for a year, and now he has just had a half-month-old prince.

Before enjoying family happiness with his children and his wife, the [-]-year-old emperor decided to take the imperial conquest himself.

Back then, his uncle Xiao Li did not make much progress in conquering the West, but he made great achievements. Xiao Ling naturally did not want to lose to him in this.Although the other party is now just a prisoner.

Before going out for the expedition, he went to Yan Prison Mansion to meet with Li Xiao, but Li Xiao persuaded him not to go on the expedition rashly.

Even though a group of elders and ministers also dissuaded him from this idea, Xiao Ling insisted on conquest by himself, so that the barbarians of Chamu could see the majesty of the heavenly dynasty, and let Li Xiao see that he, too, could make great achievements like him. .

It has been one month since Xiao Ling went west, and Li Xiao was restless in the strict prison mansion. He hated that kid for not listening to his dissuasion. If something went wrong, the world of the Xiao family might change.

Just after noon, Xiao Lian came in with food. She arranged the drinks and food one by one, and then helped Li Xiao who had difficulty walking to eat.

The dishes on the table include wine and meat, as well as fruits and vegetables, and even the rice is top-quality fragrant rice.

This was all because Fang Hongfei was worried about Li Xiao's health and specially ordered someone to cook for him, so he no longer neglected and felt wronged.

"Master Hou, Mr. Fang specially ordered the famous chef of Zuixiang Building in Beijing to make lion heads today. Come and taste it."

Xiao Lian affectionately put a lion's head in Li Xiao's bowl, and looked at him with a smile on her face.

Li Xiao was still worried about Xiao Ling's personal conquest, and he didn't care much about the delicious food, so he picked up the chopsticks and put them down again.

"Little Lian, have you heard the news of the emperor's western expedition recently?"

Although Xiao Lian is a servant in the strict prison mansion, she is much freer than him on weekdays. She should be able to meet more people and hear more things. The last time Li Xiao learned that Xiao Ling was happy to have a prince was also informed by Xiao Lian .

Xiao Lian was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect that the always gentle and taciturn Lord Hou would be concerned about the border war even though he was a criminal prisoner, she thought about it carefully, and then said: "I heard that the emperor has arrived in Shamu to supervise the battle, the front line The battle is fierce, our army has won a few games, presumably the emperor will be able to defeat the enemy and return to court soon."

How many games did you win?Is it true?Is it a conspiracy?

Li Xiao was silent, picked up the glass and took a sip of the wine, the brows were furrowed even deeper.

Just after dinner in the evening, Li Xiao was exercising in the small yard in shackles, when suddenly there was a noise outside the door, and a group of imperial guards rushed in.

The leader is Commander Xue.

It stands to reason that this place is under the jurisdiction of the Severe Prison Mansion, and it is not up to the people in the palace to intervene easily, why would they crash into this place?

Although Li Xiao was puzzled, he was not flustered. He stood calmly in the courtyard, with iron shackles in his hands, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you want to do?"

"Following the emperor's will, kill the traitor Xiao Li!"

Commander Xue sneered and waved his hand, and the guards he brought immediately surrounded Li Xiao.

Will? !Could it be...

"What did you say?!"

Seeing Li Xiao's flustered expression, Commander Xue thought that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he said sharply, "Your Majesty was killed by an arrow in front of the army. Before he died, he left a decree asking us to execute you, a traitor!"

Li Xiao's heart tightened, and Xiao Ling's bloody appearance appeared in front of his eyes.

Although he is still brooding over the battle for the throne, the other party is the son of his imperial brother after all, and also the nephew he watched and grew up with. Now that he hears the news of his death, Li Xiao is heartbroken. fall.

"Silly boy, why don't you listen to me... Is it the act of a king to take an arrow lightly?!"

"Hmph, Uncle Huang, if you have something to sigh about, go to the underworld and sigh again. Someone, kill him!"

Commander Xue was eager to make contributions, but he was also afraid of having long nights and dreams, so he immediately ordered people to come forward and kill Li Xiao.

Under the light of the knife, Li Xiao stood proudly and died without hesitation. Although he knew that something was wrong, he was powerless to resist at the moment.

Commander Xue was startled by a sudden thunderous shout, and then saw a figure falling beside Li Xiao.

Li Xiao glanced at that person, and said with a low smile, "Fang Hongfei, what are you doing?"

Fang Hongfei held the horizontal knife in his hand, his eyes were like lightning, he looked around at the guards around him, and said angrily: "Whose order did you take, dare to move the emperor's uncle?!"

As soon as the news of Xiao Ling's death arrived, Fang Hongfei knew that there would be a big change. Now that the prince is young, the Xiao family's royal line is thin, and the only relative prince is also locked in the prison mansion. Many relatives of powerful ministers will not let go of this good opportunity to seize power wantonly.

And no matter who it is, Li Xiao is a thorn in their eyes that they want to get rid of quickly.

Before he returned to the Yan Prison Mansion to arrange everything, his subordinate Fei Ma told him that Commander Xue had followed the queen's order to take people to the Yan Prison Mansion to execute Li Xiao.

"Of course we obeyed the emperor's will, Fang Hongfei, are you going to cover up this traitor?!"

Commander Xue looked back, and there was another circle of warriors behind him, presumably they were Fang Hongfei's subordinates.

"Since it is the emperor's last decree, then take out the imperial decree!"

Fang Hongfei calculated that although the news of Xiao Ling's death had spread, if there was a decree, he should still be on his way to the capital. Commander Xue came here on the orders of the queen, presumably it was the queen's relatives who wanted to act first, except that this might be The emperor's uncle who has been pushed to the throne, when the young master of the Xiao family is in their hands, it will be wind and rain.

Sure enough, as Fang Hongfei expected, Commander Xue couldn't come up with an imperial edict.He hesitated for a moment, then suddenly yelled fiercely, "I am here to kill the thief under the order of the queen, who dares to stop?! Kill Xiao Li, prosperity and wealth are just around the corner! Come on!"

Fang Hongfei sneered, and without any scruples, he protected Li Xiao with one hand, raised his knife with the other, and cut down the guard who dared to rush over in an instant.

Commander Xue saw that his martial arts were so good, he was shocked, but there was no way to retreat, so he had to grit his teeth and lead others to charge again.

When Fang Hongfei's warriors saw this, they also drew their swords against the imperial guards. After a while, the usually desolate and desolate Prison Mansion began to fight like the sky and the earth.

Although Li Xiao was protected by Fang Hongfei, after all, his hands and feet were trapped and he was unable to display his martial arts. Moreover, Commander Xue brought many guards, and his right arm was injured by the sword.

When Fang Hongfei saw that he was injured, he was furious. He chopped off the head of a guard with one knife, and hurriedly went to see Li Xiao's injury.

"Master Hou, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Li Xiaoleng looked at the wound indifferently, and said, "Release my shackles."

Fang Hongfei was startled, another guard had already rushed up, he forced him away, saw Li Xiao's stern face, gritted his teeth, took out the key from the shackles and stuffed it into Li Xiao's hand.

He came to save Li Xiao, not to watch him being killed by others because he was powerless to protect himself.

As long as you can save him, everything is fine!

Under the cover of Fang Hongfei, Li Xiao removed the shackles on his hands and feet by himself. He moved his wrist, and immediately felt a burst of relief.

A blood-stained sword was falling in front of him, and the master's body was lying on the side.

Li Xiao bent down slowly, and picked up the sword, her icy smile was as cold as the sword's cold light, which made people dare not look directly at him.

Fang Hongfei was stalked by several guards and couldn't get away. Commander Xue saw that Li Xiao was alone, and immediately jumped over with his sword.

Although he saw that the shackles on Li Xiao's hands and feet had come off, he remembered how desolate and crippled he was when he escorted Li Xiao back then, and now he is suffering from confinement even more, how severe can it be?

"Haha, Uncle Huang, I've offended you!" Commander Xue sternly laughed, and the sword in his hand was as frosty as he aimed straight at Li Xiao's throat.

He fully thought that this sword would be able to pierce Li Xiao's throat, but he saw that the other party stood still, turned his wrist, and the cold sword in his hand met his own with the blade of the sword impartially, allowing him to Couldn't go any further.

The moonlight is like water, and a crescent moon quietly emerges from the clouds.

Li Xiao turned his face and looked at Commander Xue, the corners of his lips were raised slightly, and the murderous intent was rolling in his cold eyes.

In an instant, the long sword in Commander Xue's hand was split into several sections by Li Xiao's true energy, and he himself fell to the ground after spitting out a mouthful of blood.

The other guards who were fighting with Fang Hongfei and the warriors under him stopped their hands in unison when they saw that their leader was restrained, and all looked at Li Xiao.

Fang Hongfei was also full of astonishment, he suddenly regretted that he shouldn't let go of Li Xiao.

When the dragon is born, who can return to prison?

Commander Xue looked at Li Xiao who was walking towards him step by step with his crippled leg in horror, and hurriedly begged for mercy, "Master... the little one is forced to do so, please spare me!"

"I can't force it?"

There was a bit of banter in the ending, and the chill on Li Xiao's face eased a little. He looked at the new moon in the sky with a peaceful expression.

Commander Xue saw that Li Xiao didn't seem to have any intention of killing him, so he hurriedly wiped away the blood and wanted to back away.

But before he got up, he felt a chill in his chest, and looked down to see that a long sword pierced his chest and was nailed into the stone slab in front of him.

"You..." He looked back unwillingly, and saw Li Xiao bending over with his hands behind his back and smiling contemptuously at him.

Before he finished speaking, Commander Xue spat out a mouthful of blood, fell to the ground, and remained motionless.

"The cool wind has faith, the autumn moon is boundless, such a beautiful scenery, without wine, it's a pity, haha..."

Regardless of the fearful or suspicious gazes around her, Li Xiao chuckled and staggered back to her usual living room alone.

When the people standing in the yard saw him walking slowly, they all consciously stepped aside.

Fang Hongfei was still standing there stunned, seeing Li Xiao's back walking alone, he felt a pain in his heart, and the knife he was holding tightly fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

The news of the emperor's death quickly spread throughout the country, and everyone knew that the prince was young. At that time, the state was in turmoil, and the people were in great panic. They whispered to each other every day, and even said the word "subjugation" .

At this time, people remembered King Ning who had broken the brakes back then, and discussed why King Ning was not seen to come out to support the government at this time.

However, within a few days, King Ning, who had been speculated by many parties, actually came out to assist the government as the regent, and even mobilized three armies to go to the battlefield, bound to avenge the late emperor.

When Ye Piao heard the news, she couldn't believe it was true.

Li Xiao didn't die, Li Xiao was still alive, he became King Ning again, and even became the regent.

He took a sip of wine, looked at the people outside the house who were all joyful because of King Ning assisting the government, and then murmured a laugh.

"Chang Zui Hou, I respect you."

You finally got what you wanted.I just don't know who is standing next to you at this time?

I really miss the days when I walked side by side with you, carefree and affectionate.

Ye Piao thought about the past with nostalgia, and the image of Li Xiao in front of her eyes became more vivid. The jade crown and hairpin, Chang Zuihou in the ink-embroidered robe, once smiled so gently at himself.

But I hurt him so mercilessly.How can I go to see him again...

Xiao Ling's last decree was sent back to the capital two days after the news of his death. The three princes displayed the last decree in the hall, and all the officials knelt down and bowed their heads to listen to it. Fang Hongfei was among them.

When he heard the Taiwei slowly read out "I am determined to pass on the throne to my uncle Xiaoli", he trembled all over.

It seemed that his time of death had arrived.

It's a pity that in the past two years, he still didn't really get a trace of sincerity from Li Xiao, but it only hurt him more deeply.

Fang Hongfei knelt for a long time, a helpless smile slowly appeared on his face.

Sure enough, within two days after Li Xiao entered the palace from Yan Prison Mansion, when all the officials were promoted and rewarded, he was dismissed from office and deposed from rank, and placed under house arrest.

The situation was critical, and Li Xiao was ordered in the face of danger, which was more or less beyond his expectation.

He had been indifferent to everything during his two years in Yan Prison Mansion, although Xiao Ling wanted to pass the throne to him before he died, but now he is not willing to be the emperor.

The world he wanted was won by fighting with his own hands, not by receiving a gift today.

Besides, he felt much pity for this nephew who died young, and he didn't want to take away his son's throne.

Soon, Li Xiao insisted on rejecting the throne in the name of the former queen's successor, and only regained the status of prince.

However, his move has won the praise of many old ministers, and the ministers who were still wary of him at first were more convinced, but the empress family who wanted to kill him before were panicked and flocked to avoid disaster. He voluntarily handed over the official seal, and the queen took the current son to Yangen Palace where he lived to make amends.

Li Xiao, who had regained the throne and was crowned regent, naturally could not sit idly by Sha Mu's encroachment. He urgently recalled the old ministries that were dispatched to various places because of his treason, and ordered them to go to the border to defend against the enemy.

These generals followed him on the westward expedition back then, and they knew Shamu's tactics and the border terrain very well, and knew how to deal with this barbarian.

In this way, Li Xiao sits in the capital with peace of mind, stabilizes the hearts of the people, and then sends out capable generals, just waiting for the good news.